Kamel Daoudi had been under house arrest for 12 years.
After being subjected to this strict regime since 2008, this Algerian convicted of terrorism was arrested and imprisoned Friday evening in Aurillac, in Cantal, we learned on Monday from judicial sources.
He is accused of not having respected the conditions of his assignment.
Kamel Daoudi, 45, was arrested Friday evening in an alternative café in Aurillac, where he was preparing meals, for having exceeded the hours of his assignment, according to his lawyer Emmanuel Daoud, confirming information from the regional daily La Montagne.
"Inhuman and degrading treatment"
Another condition of his assignment requiring him to look for a host country was not met, said the Aurillac prosecution.
Kamel Daoudi is to be tried on October 6.
His hearing was postponed due to requisitions taken to geolocate his cell phone, added the same source.
The 40-year-old is also accused of not having respected the rules of the curfew imposed on him between 9 p.m. and 7 a.m., certain evenings in June and July, according to Me Daoud, who announced that his client had started a strike of hunger.
"It makes you wonder if we want to push him to the limit to solve the problem", denounced the lawyer, denouncing the "inhuman and degrading treatment" inflicted on a man "placed in an impossible situation while he respects his assignment for more than ten years ”.
Unable to return to Algeria
In 2005, Kamel Daoudi was sentenced on appeal to six years in prison and a definitive ban on the territory for "criminal association in connection with a terrorist enterprise", and stripped of his French nationality.
He was a member of an Islamist group affiliated with Al-Qaeda, suspected of having prepared an attack on the United States embassy in Paris.
Banned from entering, he cannot be deported to Algeria in view of the risks of torture.
He therefore remains assigned to successive residences since 2008, an assignment "in perpetuity" that he denounces and which, according to his supporters, makes him the oldest under house arrest in France.
